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#MemorialDay: Two defining images you should never forget

After seeing these two images on Twitter yesterday, I figured the old saying “A picture is worth 1,000 words” most definitely applied, although with these two in particular many of us could go on a lot longer than 1,000 words.

Please take the time today to remember in your thoughts and prayers those who made the ultimate sacrifice, and also those who loved them and who still grieve for them. The military, their families, and their combined sacrifices are the reasons we get to enjoy the freedoms we do every day. Which is why we should never forget what they’ve given up. And not just today, but every day.

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They fought and died so our Chump-in-Chief could take those very same freedoms away from us. Mostly by executive order, and with the complicit help of an effete Congress more interested in re-election and lining their pockets and the pockets of friends than paying the necessary costs for freedom.

I have some of the rifle shell casings and a set of my father’s medals and his casualty report to remember him. Memorial Day is not much of a day for celebration for me. I remember sitting next to my father’s grave as a child and crying. And I long for the day when no children will mourn the loss of a father and no wives will mourn the loss of a husband and no parents will mourn the loss of a child…

“They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore.” — Isaiah 2:4 & Micah 4:3